Julius-Kei Kato
Dr. Julius-Kei Kato
President, SBCS & Professor, King’s College-Western University

[Biography]

Julius-Kei Kato is professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King’s University College-Western University, London, Canada, where he teaches various Religious Studies courses among which is a course on religious pluralism. He is the director of the King’s Centre for Interreligious Learning and Dialogue (CILD). He earned a Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures (SSL) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome and a PhD in Theology (with a focus in Hermeneutics) from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He is the author of How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion (2012), Religious Language and Asian [North] American Hybridity (2016), and Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: The New Testament as Spiritual Ancestry (2023).